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Archives for November 2011

Keeping Worship Fresh: Insights from Worship Director, David Hampton

How do you keep your worship services fresh after 5, 10 or 15 years in the same church? What do you think about when you lead a congregation filled with world class musicians? I was wondering some of these questions and so I reached out to my friend, David Hampton, to get his insights on these …

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November 29, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Celebrating Advent: 4 Songs and Resources to Aid in Your Worship

With Thanksgiving behind and Christmas ahead, many churches will enter the Advent season this Sunday. If you're like me (raised more generally evangelical), the richness of Advent is often an after thought. I know for many churches this is the time of year we play Christmas songs and light Advent …

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November 25, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Offering New Songs of Thanks: Three Stories to Inspire Your Thanksgiving Celebration

Football, turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Add in family, friends and some fall colors and you have Thanksgiving, right? I don't think that's what the pilgrims were thinking. The food and celebration overflowed from a place of gratefulness they had survived a very harsh first year in the …

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November 22, 2011 By Phil Mershon

God’s Call to Worship: 5 Ways Psalm 95 Shows Us How to Worship

Do you know how to worship God? Sounds like a silly question, especially on a site about worship for worship leaders and serious worshippers. But this is a vital question, "Do you really know how to worship?" Sixty years ago A.W. Tozer lamented that Christians had more resources for knowing …

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November 18, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Finding Songs for Worship: 7 Sets of Questions to Answer When Selecting Worship Songs

Do you wonder why some songs become instantly popular in your church and across the country, while others fall flat? If you're a worship leader, do you have a systematic way for evaluating new songs or do you just look at the latest CCLI top 25 to find song ideas? Thoughts about CCLI I think the …

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November 15, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Obstacles to Worship: Facing Down Life’s Giants

How do you handle life's major challenges? Where do you turn for help when your enemies overwhelm you? Fear can be a major obstacle to our worship. I've been reading about the Christians who were slaughtered under Nero's tyrannical reign. They didn't fear for their lives, but placed their trust in …

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November 11, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Planning for Worship (part 2): 9 Questions to Help Plan a Worship Service

When you're planning a worship service do you wait for your preaching pastor to tell you what the Scripture says? Do you lean on the commentaries exclusively? I don't intend to undermine the authority of your senior pastor or devalue the expertise of the commentators. Instead, I join the Reformers …

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November 8, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Preparing for Worship (part 4): 3 Things All Worshipers Can Learn from Children

What does your Sunday look like? Do you enter a new week invigorated or drained; renewed or discouraged? I was recently talking to a pastor friend about the way sports mania has invaded Sunday mornings for kids and family. I've seen numerous families have to make tough decisions about the …

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November 4, 2011 By Phil Mershon

Planning Worship (Pt. 1): 2 Steps of Preparation and 3 Perspectives to Help Plan Gospel-Centered Worship Services

Do you have a consistent model for planning worship services? Or, do you just create a setlist based on what's popular on the radio, on CCLI or what other churches in town are playing? I'd like to share a model for worship planning I have been using for almost a decade. Some background One of my …

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November 1, 2011 By Phil Mershon

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